Page 3: Historical Events In January - 28

1813  Jan Joseph Rosler, composer, dies at 41 on this day in history.   

1814  On this day in history stendahl's 1st book is published   

1815  On January - 28 andrew Jackson Hamilton, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1875   

1817  On January - 28 friedrich Ludwig Emilius Kunzen, composer, dies at 55   

1818  On this day in history george Sewall Boutwell, MC (Union), died in 1905   

1819  On this day in history sir Stamford Raffles first lands in Singapore much later a famous Hotel bears his name   

1819  Sir Stamford Raffles 1st lands in Singapore on January - 28.   

1820  On this day in history russian expedition led by Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen and Mikhail Petrovich Lazarev discovered the Antarctic continent approaching the Antarctic coast.   

1821  Bellingshausen discovers Alexander Island off Antarctica on this day in history.   

1822  Alexander MacKenzie, (L) 2nd PM of Canada (1873-78) on January - 28.   

1824  On this day in history william Kneass becomes 3rd US chief engraver (1824-40)   

1825  On January - 28 george Edward Pickett, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1875   

1828  On January - 28 michel Abeloos, Flemish sculptor   

1829  William Burke, murderer/body snatcher, executed in Edinburgh on January - 28.   

1830  On January - 28 the opera "Fra Diavolo" is produced (Paris)   

1830  Opera "Fra Diavolo," premieres in Paris on this day in history.   

1831  On January - 28 henry Brevard Davidson, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1899   

1832  On this day in history franz Wullner, composer   

1833  On January - 28 charles George Gordon, London, general (China, Khartoum)   

1838  On this day in history aleksandr I Polezjajev, Russian poet (Sasjka), dies at 33 [NS]   

1841  On January - 28 the birth of Sir Henry Morton Stanley, Sent to find the missing Dr Livingstone   

1841  Henry Stanley, Engld, journalist/explorer (found Livingston in Africa) on January - 28.   

1846  Battle of Allwal, Brits beat Sikhs in Punjab (India) on this day in history.   

1848  King of Naples grants his subjects a constitution on this day in history.   

1851  Northwestern University (Chicago) chartered on January - 28.   

1853  Jose Martí y Perez, Cuba, poet/essayist/politician on January - 28.   

1855  On January - 28 the first locomotive runs from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean on the Panama Railway.   

1855  William Seward Burroughs, NY, inventor (recording adding machine) on January - 28.   

1858  On January - 28 john Brown organized raid on Arsenal at Harper's Ferry   

1860  Britain formally returns Mosquito Coast to Nicaragua on January - 28.   

1864  On this day in history battle of New Bern, NC   

1864  On January - 28 herbert Akroyd Stuart, English engineer   

1865  On this day in history president Jefferson Davis names 3 peace commissioners   

1865  Pres Jefferson Davis names 3 peace commissioners on January - 28.   

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1225  Saint Thomas Aquinas (d. 1274) was born on January - 28.   

1312  On January - 28 birth of queen Joan II of Navarre (d. 1349)   

1457  Henry VII, Pembroke Castle, 1st Tudor king of England (1485-1509) was born on January - 28.   

1540  On this day in history birth of ludolph van Ceulen, German mathematician (d. 1610)   

1578  On this day in history birth of cornelis Haga, Dutch lawyer/ambassador to Constantinople (1611-39)   

1582  John Barclay, Scottish satirist/poet (Euphormio's Satyricon) was born on January - 28.   

1600  On this day in history birth of clement IX, [Giulio Rospigliosi], Pistoia, Italy, 238th pope (1667-69)   

1608  Giovanni Alfonso Borelli, Naples, mathematician/astronomer was born on January - 28.   

0814  On this day in history charlemagne, German emperor/Roman Emperor (800-814), dies at 71   

1061  On January - 28 death of duke SpytihnÄ›v II of Bohemia (b. 1031)   

1119  On this day in history gelasius II, [Giovannis Caetani], pope (1118-19), dies   

1256  Willem II, earl of Holland/German emperor (1238, 47-56), dies at 22 on this day in history.   

1271  On January - 28 death of isabella of Aragon, queen of Philip III of France (b. 1247)   

1393  On January - 28 death of earl of Joigny, burned at royal ball   

1443  On January - 28 death of robert le Maçon, Chancellor of France   

1528  Philips of Cleve, ruler of Ravenstein, dies on this day in history.